Lawmakers shouldn’t circumvent law of the land with state legislation
BOSTON, April 30, 2019 – The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development is holding a hearing on several bills today that provide labor unions access to employee information that erodes elements of the US Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision. NFIB, which represents thousands of small and independent businesses in Massachusetts, supported the Supreme Court decision declaring compulsory union dues for public service unions unconstitutional.
“Small business owners have clashed with public employee unions over policies that drive up labor costs and restrict job growth,” said NIFB’s Massachusetts State Director, Christopher Carlozzi. “Recently, public labor unions led the effort to enact a $15 minimum wage and create a new expanded paid family and medical leave in Massachusetts–two policies that will have a profoundly negative effect on main street businesses.”
“These bills before the committee give labor unions access to public worker’s private information and limit the timeframe for workers to resign their union memberships,” added Carlozzi. “Massachusetts should abide by the Supreme Court’s decision and reject these attempts to erect barriers for those workers inclined to sever union ties.”
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